There are a few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s, but to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple of someone's who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade, one month at a time. The look at what worked then, what endoers now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down. Turn back the calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel. It's the 80s all over. Here's a go. MTV hit the air with rock and roll video. Today there's VH1, video hits one. Finally, your music has come to television. Hi, I'm Don Eimes. You're going to have music from from the past, from the present that you want to hear all day, every day, in digital Dolby stereo. The only one of us kind anyway. Hey, can you see? Can you see? The first mandatory seat belt won America went into effect the same day that VH1 broadcast for the first time. Coincidence? You be the judge. The internet's domain name system was created, which is why you can tell all your friends and family to visit 80sallover.com now. Ronald Reagan was sworn in for a second term, the 15th Space Shuttle mission was launched, and Lee and Timing Price gave her final operatic performance in IEDA. Finally, as the month came to a close, Michael Jackson and a supergroup of celebrities gathered in Los Angeles to record... We are the world, we are the children. Setting the tone for a very weird year ahead in January of 1985. Hi everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie and welcome as always to 80's all over. I'm joined by my co-host Scott Weinberg. What's up Scott? What is up buddy? We are ready for a new year and I'm excited because despite January being a wasteland, this is a really fun year and I'm looking forward to the next 11 episodes. It's the most diverse year we've done so far. It's all over the map. Drew, did we forget a British horror film? It is a veritable boner parade this month. In mentioning the soundtrack to Birdie, as we were talking about it, and the amazing work Peter Gabriel did there, referred to the Passion of the Christ soundtrack, and obviously was referring to the last temptation of Christ. But it's Scott, and I both know the soundtrack to that movie is is called the Passion of the Christ soundtrack and obviously was referring to the last temptation of Christ. But it's Scott and I both know the soundtrack to that movie is called

the Passion. That's the name of the Peter Gabriel which is why it's so easy to make that mistake.

My apologies to Christ.

Also you made a mention of the first sound editing Oscar being awarded to one of the movies

in our last episode. It was actually given for the first time in 1963 to it's a mad mad mad mad mad world. But... Yeah, when I did my research, it had in parenthetical special Oscar. So me, assuming I'm brilliant, made the assumption that, oh, if that was a special Oscar that year, then it must have been the first year. Guess what? I was wrong. I mentioned in the introduction to the last episode that we sat out the 84 Olympics. Of course, that was not the case. This was the summer that we dominated the Olympics and Russia was the party that sat that one out. I'm so sorry. I got to confused. Of course, we kicked ass and took names that year. Feel like you're part of the Olympic action. Play McDonald's when the US wins, you win Olympic games.

What's your event?

Women's freestyle relay.

If the US... kicked ass and took names that win! I got a lot of free McDonald's that year from the 84 Olympics. I did too. I did too. I can't believe I forgot that. Oh, and then we missed a movie. What was the movie we missed? Someone in the UK decided that the controversy surrounding Silent Night Deadly Night was something they also wanted, so they slap something together over the course of two years which

means it actually predates that controversy homocycle maniac is loose at Christmas his target is Santa Claus his motives baffle scotland yard without a pattern for murder no one dressed as Santa Claus is safe his death toys or a spear a gun Open Razor, a dagger, are an old fashioned garab.

Exhibition by any means. Don't open till Christmas. Yeah, this thing was in production for like two and a half years. The director is a well-established British actor named Edmund Purdom. He apparently got fired and then came back at the very end. The thing went through horrible production delays. That's easily the most interesting aspect of the film. Aside from perhaps the presence of the lovely Carolyn Monroe, this thing is unwatchable. Carolyn Monroe is playing Carolyn Monroe in like a variety show that they break into. And the song she sings so awful. It is. Don't open till Christmas with special guest star Carolyn Monroe. It is one of those moments where you realize why variety shows died. This thing is a sleeping pill and the identity of the killer's ridiculous, the murders themselves are ridiculous, even as a junkie little slasher film from the UK. snooze. Now let's move on to another film you should never put on your list. It took nine writers, seven directors and Richard Mall from Nightcourt, 73 minutes of absolute anthology nonsense!

DUNGEN MESTER!

A.K.A. Rage War. Die He has destroyed all that would kill it

He is the only one who can face the challenges of Dungeon master The challenges of excalibrate It's Mestima versus excalibrate that is the movie. All right. Let me see if I can sum it up as quickly as possible.

Mystema sounds like a very embarrassing disease you get in an area you don't want to talk about. Side effects include Excalibrate. A guy who is obsessed with his computer goes to sleep and he and his girlfriend get abducted by a demon played by Bull from Night Court. And then Bull from Night Court Put him through a series of very brief anthology segments in which he has to thwart some kind of evil in one case it's like leftovers from ghoulies and in another case it's literally the rock band wasp. It's not sense. Well here's the thing this movie has wasp, Albert Einstein, stop motion Harryhausen monsters, and Richard Moll. It's got frozen samurai zombies left over goolees, cartoon dragons, and bull from my court. Did I mention? The thing that I will say about it is, as Empire Pictures go, it's moderately watchable, mainly because it does not stop throwing nonsense at you for the entire 80 minutes. It is watchable in the sense that like a five-year-old who just had 12 pixie sticks is watchable. I like the Dave Allen segment just because I like the stop motion. And I think the stop motion stuff is actually pretty nice and for an effects nerd, you just watch that segment go oh yeah that's pretty groovy. It is fucking nonsense but if you happen to have like you know a Bong handy and in 73 minutes to kill and you want to like join the club of weird movie nerds who can talk about the dungeon master on Twitter then yeah go ahead go nuts. I reject your reality and I replace it with my own! And why is that line famous? It got picked up and turned into a meme, and I believe it started on Mythbusters. I would say to you as far as early Empire Pictures Productions, Dungeon Master is at least marginally more watchable than Goolees. Oh yes, and I will roll right in now. Jonathan is having a housewarming party. Whoa! Unfortunately, there will be some surprise guesses. Ah! Gully! Gully! Gully! Gully! Gully! Gully! Julie's, they'll get you in the end. Rated PG-13. What is it everybody knows about Gullies? It's the cover. It's the cover of the monster popping out of the toilet. And what is it that you are having just watched it are now here to tell those people? There is no monster popping out of the toilet. It is one of those movies that everybody remembers seeing on the shelf. And every time you, I mean, that's kind of what the charm of VHS stores was, everything got ordered based on how it looked or based on if it was a big hit. So it wasn't a big hit, you had to have something that we get somebody to order it for the store. And that's why we had the heyday of amazing cover art and a lot of these VHS covers

are flat out lies and I kind of have an nostalgia and affection for the bald face

thevery of a poster in which nothing appears in the movie.

Aside from the creatures, what do you think of this film?

Oh my God.

It's terrible and maybe it's just because I don't find any of it scary or interesting.

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